Director Talks Stillborn Uncharted Movie

The Hollywood Reporter spoke to the helmer of such films as The Fighter and Three Kings, and he said it basically came down to good old creative differences.

"What can I say, I waded into those waters of the tentpole movies, and I wrote what I wanted to write, and I feel like I wrote my vision," said Russell. "And the rest is up to those guys. I can't pick for those guys. I don't know what they want to do over there. It's just a parting of the ways creatively."

"I'm not making Uncharted."

Those guys, one assumes, is the studio behind the project (Sony). It was previously reported by The Los Angeles Times that Russell's screenplay for the film went "in a different direction than studio Sony wanted. Russell had already turned in a script, but it was a script so long and so ambitious that it was at least partly responsible for the studio and him parting ways. … Among the many flourishes Russell had added were a bevy of characters not in the video game."

Studio execs remain committed to making the film -- just not Russell's version of it -- and are said to be looking for a new writer and director.

As for Russell, he's got a variety of potential films lined up next: The Silverlining's Playbook with Mark Wahlberg and Robert De Niro (both of whom had been rumored to be up for Russell's Uncharted film as well), a "romantic Western project" called Two Guns and an action-drama called Mission.